yay creates "$HOME" directory within the user's home directory.

[meganukebmp]

Affected Version

yay v8.1110

Issue

Yay seems to create a new directory called $HOME within the user's actual home directory. Likely not respecting the $HOME environment variable or code error. Seems to only do this for the .config directory however.

Steps to reproduce

1. Run any yay command such as yay -Syy
2. Check user's home directory

[parkerlreed]

Cannot reproduce here

[parker@e55 ~]$ yay -Syu ... ... [parker@e55 ~]$ yay --version yay v8.1110.r0.ga109ea4 - libalpm v11.0.1 [parker@e55 ~]$ ls build Documents Games Mu Native2Proton Public Templates 'VirtualBox VMs' Desktop Downloads go Music Pictures 'SEGA Mega Drive Classics' Videos

[Morganamilo]

@parkerlreed you might not be able to reproduce it because you have an older config that has the full path. Either way it definitely occurs, just that the file is created in the current directory, not the home directory.

I'll fix it then I'm leaving the file handling to @Jguer and never going near it again.

[Morganamilo]

Should be fixed in git now.

[Morganamilo]

Also for removing that directory. I would probably opt for rm -ri '$HOME'.

[Morganamilo]

Also I believe people will only be effected by this bug if they started using yay (or reset the config) in the past 4 days 7 hours. So not as catastrophic as it seems. As I said this is probably why @parkerlreed isn't effected.

@meganukebmp Is this the case for you?

[meganukebmp]

@Morganamilo switched to yay just a few hours ago so yeah. Thanks for reacting so fast and resolving the issue!

[Jguer]

Pushing a new release

I'll fix it then I'm leaving the file handling to @Jguer and never going near it again.

:rofl: